Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Badajoz
Olivenza
Badajoz · Extremadura · 432 km²
What rustic land in Olivenza allows and holds, for the municipality as a whole. For a particular plot, open it in the map: the report answers for that exact point.
Can you build a house on rustic land?
Extremadura requires at least 1.5 ha for a new house on rustic land.
Ley 11/2018, art. 70. A town plan can be stricter.
Plan in force: Plan General (a full town plan), from 2005. The region's planning viewer ↗
The national urban information system (SIU) maps the land class for 100% of the municipality.
Only the town hall can confirm it, in writing: ask for a certificado urbanístico.
Is there water?
IGME records 43 wells and boreholes in Olivenza. Half of the 43 with a depth found water at 7–42 m. 7 springs are recorded.
Ground: 61% practically impermeable; 18% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 14% low permeability, local groundwater only; 6.8% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 23 ha, in 2025.
- No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
- 6.8% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
- Radon zone II: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.
Living here
- 4G reaches 99% of homes; fibre 89%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 481 mm a year (1971–2000), about 425 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 32.6 °C, about 36.3 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 7 a year, about 1 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Alconchel · Valverde de Leganés · Táliga · Barcarrota · Higuera de Vargas · Badajoz
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From IGME, MITECO, SNCZI, EFFIS, the SIU, the Building Code, NCSE-02, SETID and AdapteCCa; summarised 9 October 2026. Information, not a certificate: the town hall has the final word.